In addition to making available to students the core courses required for the master of divinity, Coppenger said SBTS Nashville administration and faculty hope the newly expanded extension site will prove helpful to laity as well as those who sense a call to full-time vocational ministry, noting their exploration of adding a master of arts... Continue Reading

Via, Steve’s wife of 35 years still has hope for the area and summed it up this way: “We came to Helena with the good seed of the gospel. In five years we have found the seed is still good. The condition of the soil makes the difference in how well a seed grows. This... Continue Reading

Don Sweeting, president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, invites the public to two back to back President’s Community Forums this week from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall on campus at 1231 Reformation Drive, Oviedo, Fla. Steve Brown, RTS practical theology professor emeritus and Key Life radio personality, will be Sweeting’s... Continue Reading

Geneva’s emphasis on service is not unique. Thanks in part to college students’ increased interest in social projects, both secular and Christian colleges have outreach programs to their surrounding communities. Students work in schools, serve meals at homeless shelters, help clean up urban neighborhoods and build houses for struggling families During a recent after-school program... Continue Reading

Last week, the student senate at Northeastern University, in Boston, voted to end negotiations to bring fast-food chain Chick-fil-A to campus after students protested over the company’s affiliation with several Christian organizations the students say have an “anti-gay” agenda. The Atlanta-based company, dogged for months by accusations of homophobia, insists it is “not anti-anybody” but... Continue Reading

Over the course of U.S. history, an ethic of transparency about organizational performance has taken hold in private industry, the legal and medical professions, and, most recently, on account of public demand, the financial sector. It is time for this level of transparency and accountability to take root in the aid industry, and it will... Continue Reading

“It’s possible to preach a Gospel-centered message, and yet undermine it with the songs you sing and even with the things you do in the church. I think it’s one of those difficulties we face in working in this sort of postmodern context is dots don’t connect like they use to.” –Kevin Twitt, Indellible Grace... Continue Reading

Finally, professors should articulate what it means to place Christ and their Christian identity first in life. Students, who are learning to prioritize and combine their own multiple identities and loyalties, surely profit from such wise counsel. Professors can constantly remind students that they are more than students. Their grades do not constitute their worth... Continue Reading

“John [the Apostle] wanted to make sure that when he wrote of Jesus as the Son of God he would not be understood” in those wrong ways. He wanted “to make it clear from the outset that the Sonship which Jesus claimed . . . was precisely a matter of personal deity and nothing less.”... Continue Reading

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders and members, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. “The university has given itself the authority to determine whether a group is religious or not,” said Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. Tedesco filed suit on behalf... Continue Reading